I hate to even type the words, but yes. I’ve gone gluten free. As much as I’m missing garlic bread and a good ol’ spag bowl, I am finding that it is slightly helping with my stomach issues. I wanted to still be able to make gingerbread, but minus the gluten. Fortunately, I managed to come across Gluten Free Gingerbread Men Recipe , and immediately brought all the ingredients.

Ingredients

2 cups gluten-free flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1⁄2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon

2 teaspoons ground ginger

1 pinch salt

1 egg

125 g butter

1⁄4 cup golden syrup

1⁄2 cup brown sugar

Icing sugar (optional)

Sweets and decorations (optional)

Directions

In a bowl, cream together the butter and the brown sugar. Honestly, this was one of the most time consuming parts.

Add the golden syrup and egg and mix it all together. DON’T panic if it looks like its curdled. Mine did the exact same thing, but mum assured me that this was apparently normal.

In an another bowl, sift all the dry ingredients, add to the wet ingredients and mix together. When I mixed everything together, I then rolled it all up in a ball. Who knows if this was the right thing to do, but the chefs on TV seem to do it…

Refrigerate the dough for 1 hour. Again, I don’t know if this was the right thing to do, but I covered my bowel with cling film. I also had ZERO room in the fridge, so I popped it into the out-house (not as posh as it sounds)!

Remove dough from refrigerator and place onto a floured surface and knead lightly.

Roll out to desired thickness and then cut into shapes using cookie cutters.